Omdia Crit Comms Circle: The ‘forgotten group’ of mission-critical users
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Welcome to Omdia’s Crit Comms Circle, the podcast series bringing you market insight direct from Omdia analysts, exploring all facets of the critical-communications industry. This podcast is hosted by Paul Bremner, a principal analyst in the Public Safety & Critical Communications group at Omdia. Based in Manchester, UK, he is the lead analyst for the Command and Control Rooms Intelligence Service, providing market data and insights into the future of control rooms/PSAPs.
Critical communications–in particular, those deemed to be “mission-critical”–quite often refers to public-safety applications, but there’s another group outside of public-safety users. In this first podcast, our guest is Alfonso de la Cruz, who talks about this “forgotten group.”
Alfonso de la Cruz is a principal analyst in the Public Safety & Critical Communications group at Omdia, the analyst arm of Informa Tech, which is the parent organization for IWCE and IWCE’s Urgent Communications.
Based in London, UK, Alfonso is the lead analyst for the Critical Communications Mobile Radio Infrastructure (LMR & Broadband), providing market data and strategic insights into the evolution of the international landscape of critical communication solutions for Government Public Safety and Private Industrial connectivity. Prior to his current role as a Critical Communications technology expert, Alfonso’s responsibilities included the innovative product strategy and commercial development of cellular 5G network solutions and the development of Private Connectivity Network deployments across different industries and a wide range of channels that include Service Providers and Telcos, large enterprises, SMB companies, and B2G government agencies across the globe.